News (Change & Development)

This Learning disability Week’s theme is creativity. We asked our new Evaluation Manager, Dr Karen McInnes, to talk about the value of play and playfulness and its role in communicating and learning creatively.

A perspective on Mental Health Awareness Week | About 2 weeks into lockdown#3, the staff team at NDTi started sharing pictures of our individual weekly walks on our teams site...it started to widen our window to the world.

Those living in our towns and cities have to find nature where they can, not in the big spaces but in the small ones, in life, in the sky, in the cracks in the pavements.

Lessons about inclusion from autistic adolescent girls who stop attending school A subtitled video of the webinar from May 2021 by Dr Ruth Moyse. Children who stop attending school are often called truants or school refusers, placing the reason for their absence as a problem within the child. This session proposes a different way of interpreting their absence, by sharing lessons learnt from research with 10 autistic girls who stopped attending mainstream secondary schools.

Highlights from the 2021 Inclusion Education Festival hosted by NDTi #inclusionEdFest.

This three-part podcast addresses the common questions young people with additional needs have about applying to, choosing and attending university.

A Mother, Carer and "Expert by Experience" of the Care and Treatment Review process offers her views

NDTi Associate Crispin Hebron, and one of the authors of the soon to be published ‘A for Adjustments’, reflects on the importance of reasonable adjustments

NDTI Ambassador, Saba Salman, looks at why relying on GPs' discretion for moving people with learning disabilities into priority group 6 isn't enough to tackle health inequalities.

If not now, when? And if not us – who? Elaine Torrance comments on the recent publication of the much-anticipated Adult Social Care Review in Scotland.